Location | Stockton, Alabama, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA |
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Region | Baldwin County, Alabama |
Coordinates | 31°0′31.69″N 87°56′26.04″W / 31.0088028°N 87.9405667°W |
History | |
Founded | 1250 |
Abandoned | 1550 |
Cultures | Pensacola culture |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1932 |
Archaeologists | David L. DeJarnette |
Architecture | |
Architectural styles | platform mound |
Architectural details | Number of temples: |
Bottle Creek Site | |
NRHP reference No. | 74000398 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | December 2, 1974[1] |
Designated NHL | April 19, 1994[2] |
Bottle Creek Indian Mounds (1BA2) is an archaeological site owned and monitored by the Alabama Historical Commission located on a low swampy island within the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta north of Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was occupied by the peoples of the Pensacola culture, a regional Mississippian culture variant, and is the largest site of the Mississippian culture on the central Gulf Coast. It is important to understanding the history and culture of the Mobile-Tensaw delta in late prehistoric times and was designated as a National Historic Landmark[2] on March 10, 1995, making it one of only two such sites in Alabama (alongside Moundville Archeological Park).